Re: windows ver. of Octave

[Andy Adler]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 address@hidden wrote:

> On 30 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Doug Stewart wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded the  octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe
> > <cid:part1.07020007.03030603@sympatico.ca>  file and went to install it.
> > The first message said that it is optimized for Intel   -- I have an
> > Athlon is this a problem??
>
> I'm not sure.  Anyone have any idea what compiler flags I should be
> using for Octave so that it will work on any Windows box?  Is it
> worthwhile to make specialized versions for each architecture?

My experience was that a PII optimized ATLAS ran on everything and
was almost as efficient as the native versions.

I don't have access to that many different machines, though.

Anyone with a deep knowledge of i386 style processors able to comment?

Andy



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